@InProceedings{VogelBW08,
  AUTHOR = {Vogel, Thomas and Bruhn, Jens and Wirtz, Guido},
  TITLE = {{Autonomous Reconfiguration Procedures for EJB-based Enterprise
  Applications}},
  YEAR = {2008},
  MONTH = {July},
  BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on
  Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2008), San
  Francisco, CA, USA},
  PAGES = {48-53},
  PUBLISHER = {Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School},
  ABSTRACT = {Enterprise Applications (EA) are complex software systems
  for supporting the business of companies. Evolution of an EA should
  not affect its availability, e.g., because of a temporal shutdown,
  business operations may be affected. One possibility to address this
  problem is the seamless reconfiguration of the affected EA, i.e.,
  applying the relevant changes while the system is running. Our approach
  to seamless reconfiguration focuses on component-oriented EAs. It is
  based on the Autonomic Computing infrastructure mKernel that enables
  the management of EAs that are realized using Enterprise Java Beans
  (EJB) 3.0 technology. In contrast to other approaches that provide no
  or only limited reconfiguration facilities, our approach consists of a
  comprehensive set of steps, that perform fine-grained reconfiguration
  tasks. These steps can be combined into generic and autonomous
  reconfiguration procedures for EJB-based EAs. The procedures are not
  limited to a certain reconfiguration strategy. Instead, our approach
  provides several reusable strategies and is extensible w.r.t. the
  opportunity to integrate new ones. }
}